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On edge devices, data scarcity occurs as a common problem where transfer learning serves as a widely-suggested remedy. Nevertheless, transfer learning imposes a heavy computation burden to resource-constrained edge devices. Existing task…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Zimu Zheng , Qiong Chen , Chuang Hu , Dan Wang , Fangming Liu

By leveraging the concept of mobile edge computing (MEC), massive amount of data generated by a large number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices could be offloaded to MEC server at the edge of wireless network for further computational…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Lei Lei , Huijuan Xu , Xiong Xiong , Kan Zheng , Wei Xiang , Xianbin Wang

With the fast development of mobile edge computing (MEC), there is an increasing demand for running complex applications on the edge. These complex applications can be represented as workflows where task dependencies are explicitly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Xuejun Li , Tianxiang Chen , Dong Yuan , Jia Xu , Xiao Liu

This work considers a parallel task execution strategy in vehicular edge computing (VEC) networks, where edge servers are deployed along the roadside to process offloaded computational tasks of vehicular users. To minimize the overall…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Sungho Cho , Sung Il Choi , Seung Hyun Oh , Ian P. Roberts , Sang Hyun Lee

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) technology is a promising solution to assist power-constrained IoT devices by providing additional computing resources for time-sensitive tasks. In this paper, we consider the problem of optimal task…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Shubham Aggarwal , Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Melih Bastopcu , Sennur Ulukus , Tamer Başar

AI WiFi offload is emerging as a promising approach for providing large language model (LLM) services to resource-constrained wireless devices. However, unlike conventional edge computing, LLM inference over WiFi must jointly address…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Mingqi Han , Xinghua Sun

In this paper, we consider a task offloading problem in a multi-access edge computing (MEC) network, in which edge users can either use their local processing unit to compute their tasks or offload their tasks to a nearby edge server…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Babak Badnava , Keenan Roach , Kenny Cheung , Morteza Hashemi , Ness B Shroff

Facing the trend of merging wireless communications and multi-access edge computing (MEC), this article studies computation offloading in the beyond fifth-generation networks. To address the technical challenges originating from the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Xianfu Chen , Celimuge Wu , Zhi Liu , Ning Zhang , Yusheng Ji

Task offloading is a promising technology to exploit the benefits of fog computing. An effective task offloading strategy is needed to utilize the computational resources efficiently. In this paper, we endeavor to seek an online task…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Zhaowei Zhu , Ting Liu , Shengda Jin , Xiliang Luo

Emerging computation-intensive applications impose stringent latency requirements on resource-constrained mobile devices. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) addresses this challenge through task offloading. However, designing effective policies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ning Yang , Chuangxin Cheng , Haijun Zhang

Resource scheduling in cloud-edge systems is challenging as edge nodes run latency-sensitive workloads under tight resource constraints, while existing centralized schedulers can suffer from performance bottlenecks and user experience…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Shengye Song , Minxian Xu , Kan Hu , Wenxia Guo , Kejiang Ye

Multi-access-Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is a promising solution for computationally demanding rigorous applications, that can meet 6G network service requirements. However, edge servers incur high computation costs during task processing.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Asad Aftab , Semeen Rehman

Nowadays, data caching is being used as a high-speed data storage layer in mobile edge computing networks employing flow control methodologies at an exponential rate. This study shows how to discover the best architecture for backhaul…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Amir Ziaeddini , Amin Mohajer , Davoud Yousefi , A. Mirzaei , Shu Gonglee

With the growing integration of artificial intelligence in mobile applications, a substantial number of deep neural network (DNN) inference requests are generated daily by mobile devices. Serving these requests presents significant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yaodan Xu , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

This paper studies a sequential task offloading problem for a multiuser mobile edge computing (MEC) system. We consider a dynamic optimization approach, which embraces wireless channel fluctuations and random deep neural network (DNN) task…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Feng Wang , Songfu Cai , Vincent K. N. Lau

Immersive extended reality (XR) applications introduce latency-critical workloads that must satisfy stringent real-time responsiveness while operating on energy- and battery-constrained devices, making execution placement between end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Sourya Saha , Saptarshi Debroy

Computation offloading has become a popular solution to support computationally intensive and latency-sensitive applications by transferring computing tasks to mobile edge servers (MESs) for execution, which is known as mobile/multi-access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Ruihuai Liang , Bo Yang , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chau Yuen

Mobile devices can offload deep neural network (DNN)-based inference to the cloud, overcoming local hardware and energy limitations. However, offloading adds communication delay, thus increasing the overall inference time, and hence it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Roberto G. Pacheco , Rodrigo S. Couto , Osvaldo Simeone

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a promising technology to release the tension between computation-intensive applications and resource-limited mobile terminals (MTs). In this paper, we study the delay-optimal computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Xianling Meng , Wei Wang , Yitu Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau , Zhaoyang Zhang

Mobile edge computing and fog computing are promising techniques providing computation service closer to users to achieve lower latency. In this work, we study the optimal offloading strategy in the three-tier federated computation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Ren-Hung Hwang , Yuan-Cheng Lai , Ying-Dar Lin